How similar are your political views to your Parents

[gottsu]

Mine parents have no specified views, they don't vote mostly, they are quite moderately interested in politics, they just follow TV news and believe what they say here. My whole family (eg. aunts, uncles, grandpas etc.) is just that.

[DavidB.]

My parents used to be rather far to the left (my mother more of the "libertine" academic variety, my father more of the hard-left variety, squatting and all) and I remember distributing Socialist Party leaflets with my father as a small child. After 9/11, the Second Intifada (due to which my father left the SP) and especially the murder of Theo van Gogh, they became very anti-immigration and anti-Islam, but without becoming any less progressive on the issues Americans call "social issues". Freedom of speech is the most important political issue to them. They now vote for the PVV.

I would say much of my outlook on politics started there, but of course I have made my own ideological "journey" over the last ten years, from conservative liberal to libertarian to conservative to, I guess, national conservative now. I also became more traditional/religious, whereas my parents are staunch atheists.

I think the main difference between my views and those of my parents would be my skepticism towards the cultural revolution of '68, which my parents would probably still embrace in itself even though they think it has gone too far. My parents are still "culturally" left-wing, even though they oppose the SJW stuff and anti-nationalism that is now trendy. I am more of a genuine (Dutch/European) right-winger, though I have inherited some of my parents' intrinsically left-wing traits (privacy issues, some innate skepticism towards authority, law and order, the monarchy etc.).

In terms of actual issues, the differences would be remarkably small. The only issue I can think of that my mother and I once had a big argument about was Women of the Wall in Israel. They are also a little too pro-Kremlin in my view (though far from actual Putin apologists), but I am avoiding that topic because I find it too tiresome. I think my parents would also oppose increased defense spending from a left-wing perspective, which I wholeheartedly support.

[BenBurch]

My parents are pot-smoking hippies, to my detriment.  I am completely the opposite socially-wise, and I am center-left on economics.

[Cold War Liberal]

Vocally supported Hillary Clinton in the 2016 general election (which caught me a ton of heat in my extremely conservative county).

Which County is that?

Harford.

[America Needs a 13-6 Progressive SCOTUS]

Vocally supported Hillary Clinton in the 2016 general election (which caught me a ton of heat in my extremely conservative county).

Which County is that?

Harford.

Eh
Harford is not that conservative.
With what you said, I instantly thought you were talking about something like Carroll or Garrett County.

[Cold War Liberal]

Vocally supported Hillary Clinton in the 2016 general election (which caught me a ton of heat in my extremely conservative county).

Which County is that?

Harford.

Eh
Harford is not that conservative.
With what you said, I instantly thought you were talking about something like Carroll or Garrett County.

I mean, we're not Cecil,* but we did go 58% for Trump. We're very segregated too; north of Rt. 40/I-95 is a mix of wealthy white people (economic conservatives) and poor white farmers (in places like Darlington, social conservatives. Also their high school has "bring your tractor to school" day). Meanwhile go south of 40/95 and you get working-class white people in Havre de Grace** and Joppatowne (economically liberal) and working-class-to-working-poor people of all kinds in Edgewood and Aberdeen (socially and economically liberal, for the most part). I live and work south of 40/95, but my social group is mostly split between people from North of the interstate and people south of it. Before the election I mostly knee people from above the highway, which means that I was the only Clinton supporter I knew. Nowadays I know several others, though by no means a majority of those I interact with.

*One of my friends from Cecil had to repeatedly decline to join the KKK. They have recruiters up there
**And I do mean IN Havre de Grace, not in the wealthy gated community directly adjacent to Harve de Grace. The natives would be mad if I didn't distinguish the two

[Grassroots]

Dad: HW-Dole-(McCain)Bush-Bush-(Romney)McCain-(Romney)Romney-(Trump)Trump

Mom: Clinton-Clinton-Gore-Bush-(Huckabee)Obama-(Gingrich)Romney-(Cruz)Trump

My dad is a very typical northern republican, he is more moderate than most republicans, but I inherited his overall skepticism with big government. He has always voted republican, and voted Trump in the primaries and the general because quote, "Big suits have done smack honestly, bold men build a bold country".

My mom grew up a mormon (reorganized latter-day saints). She is a southern democrat, the type that shifted heavily to republicans over the years due to social issues. She is very pro-life, and has abandoned her mormon faith and has adopted my dad's methodism.

Both of my parents were politically apathetic, but they never wasted vote, and they never forgot to vote.

If I could vote since 1992:

HW-Dole-(Bush)Bush-Bush-(Romney)McCain-(Romney)Romney

How I did vote in 2016

(Rubio)Trump

[NEW JERSEY FOR MENENDEZ]

Very different lol. My parents are Trumpets (they've been a little less enthusiastic since the tax bill though), while I am not. They're conservative Republicans while I am a economic moderate social liberal Democrat.

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

My parents are both fairly left wing (apparently my mum was involved in a particularly nasty poll tax protest and almost got crushed). I'm pretty sure when I was growing up my dad (at least) identified with the Kennedy era Lib Dems due to Iraq, although my mum stayed Labour. Both - like most people in this country - have been politicalised in recent years due to Brexit, where they take the standard line for North London middle class people. (Which has caused conflict with my grandparents, who are from a grim post-industrial town in Somerset, who, well, voted lthe standard line for elderly people in such areas).

[Jeppe]

Not very. My mom is a bible-thumping conservative and my dad is a small business owner who doesn't care about politics.

[Rookie Yinzer]

My mom votes every time but is honestly a low information voter. She usually asks me who should she support. She is a mainstream partisan Democrat.

My dad leans conservative. He is homophobic and anti-choice. I guess we agree on some economic issues and typically agree on foreign Policy, we are both anti-nation building. I actually think criticism of Obama’s foreign policy is the only thing we agreed on. He votes in primaries for both parties.

[Dr. MB]

Mom is a standard liberal/progressive Democrat who voted Bernie and enthusiastically supported Hillary, dad is essentially center-left, and voted Hillary even though he doesn't really like her. My dad knows a pretty good amount about politics, and said he would vote Liberal Democrat in the UK.

I'm more libertarian (socially) than both of them, I disagree with both on guns, and some other issues as well.

adding on: both parents have voted Democratic for president every time.

[MAINEiac4434]

Dad: Union organizer, struck several times in the 1980s. I inherited his disdain for big business and the owning class, though I've obviously gone much further than him and become a full on anti-capitalist. If dad were still here he'd probably be a Bernie guy. Traditional populist, rural Democrat. Lots like him in Maine.

Mom: Mainstream Democrat, loves Hillary more than she loves me.

[here2view]

Both parents are registered as Independent, but differ a little:

Dad: Voted for Kerry in 2004, Obama both times, and Hillary in 2016. Didn't like Hillary at all, but would never have voted for Trump. Shares some economic views with Sanders. Pro gay marriage, not really sure what abortion stance is though. For gun control. I don't know why he's not registered Democrat, as both of his parents are.

Mom: Very complex. Voted Kerry in 2004, didn't vote in 2008 or 2012, voted for Hillary in 2016. Not a big Obama fan, but I don't know anyone who hates Trump more than her; the main reason she voted was to vote against Trump (although she likes Hillary a lot more than my dad.) Was extremely apolitical until Trump's presidency. Actually voted Mitt Romney for MA Governor in 2002 and supported him the most out of all Republican candidates in 2012 (although she didn't vote in the primary or general election, she said she would have voted for him over Obama.) Supported Sanders in the 2016 Democratic primary, but didn't vote either. More conservative than my dad on social issues, but is a big, big supporter of gun control.

I think my mom would have voted (if she did actually vote) for the Republican Presidential candidate in 2020 or 2024, had Trump not won. His Presidency and the radicalization of the GOP since 2015 has shifted her away from that possibility for a while (if not forever.) She bases a lot of her candidate support on character, and she despises Trump. That's pushed her to the left for now.

Overall, I'm more similar to my dad.

[SATW]

Dad: 75-80% similar
Mom: 40-50% similar
Sister: 70-75% similar